ISIS is Coming Back to Neck Bite Afghanistan

These days nobody is taken aback anymore by the opportunistic statements the sitting American president has been making for the last couple of years. If Donald Trump is to be believed, all of the most challenging problems the international community is facing these days can be resolved with a single stroke of the pen.

Among those alleged attempts to resolve complex international issues was his decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights territory, the strip of land that belongs to Syria but remains occupied by Tel-Aviv. However, this step was made in direct violation of a number of UN resolutions, as if the international law would cease to exist overnight.

Moreover, Trump would repeatedly claim that the Pentagon is proceeding with the reduction of the number of US troops illegally deployed to Syria, while their actual number remains unchanged.

In a similar fashion, the sitting US president would repeatedly claim that Washington managed to secure a complete victory over the terrorist organization known as ISIS. Yet another such statement was presented to the world on March 20, when Trump announced that the last enclave held in Syria by Islamist forces was about to be liberated by the forces of the US-backed paramilitary organization known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). However, the SDF detachments that were facing ISIS in the area of the Baghuz village in eastern Syria would rebuke these claims on the following day.

In order to make an objective evaluation of Trump’s repeated statements, let’s draw a clear picture of the events that are taking place the ongoing US alleged struggle against ISIS militants?

It’s hardly a secret that for those people in Washington that were entrusted with the project of the “Greater Middle East” and “Greater Afghanistan”, ISIS is nothing but a lever of Western influence on the processes occurring across multiple regions, including Central and Southeast Asia. Thus, in its shape and form ISIS is the spiritual........